Myanmar, once hailed for its tentative steps towards democracy, now stands at the precipice of a perilous struggle between the military junta and anti-regime forces. In recent times, the nation has witnessed a dramatic escalation of conflic...
In September 2013, China's President Xi Jinping unveiled the One Belt, One Road Initiative. Although many people didn't pay much attention to it at first, the concept has since evolved into a more prominent international project. This Proje...
Southeast Asia was a crucial theatre during the Second World War between the Japanese Empire and the Allied powers. Then followed the Cold War, which spread throughout most of Southeast Asia and was particularly destructive in Cambodia, Lao...
The 4th Mekong River Commission (MRC) Summit and International Conference was held from April 2 to 5 in Vientiane, Laos. It was hailed to be an upgradation towards the goal of water security and cooperation in Mekong.This conference was the...
The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) is an intergovernmental organization that was established in 1921 to promote cooperation among nations in the field of hydrography and nautical charting. The IHO's main objective is to ensur...
The year 2021 marked two decades since the term "BRICS" was first used by former Goldman Sachs economist Jim O'Neill in the early 2000s to refer to the four rapidly developing nations that appeared most likely to start catching up to the We...
The People's Republic of China did not participate in any discussion on the international trade in weapons until the beginning of the twenty-first century. However, today a number of Chinese arms companies, such as the Aviation Industr...
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), an international grouping of eight member states (China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Pakistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan), four observer states (Afghanistan, Belarus, Iran, and Mongol...
The 15th and 16th of September 2022 marked the 22nd annual summit of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. The first physical meeting since the pandemic, this meeting bro...
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has added Myanmar to its category of “high-risk jurisdictions subject to a call for action” popularly referred to as the “Blacklist”. The statement from FATF stated that Myanmar continuously showed a l...
The word "terrorism" now appears in newspaper headlines on a nearly daily basis. It's a word that covers a broad spectrum of concepts and ideas. Because of terrorism, almost every nation on this planet has suffered. India is one of them. In...
The rising debt levels in South Asian countries are concerning and can trigger a debt crisis in the region. The countries Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Myanmar are facing sovereign debt crises. Sri Lanka is a country that had faced d...
